Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Some of you may be interested in this article.
Note the use of large scale production by the romans and of incubators by the Egyptians. These are both multiple hundreds of years BC.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-chicken-conquered-the-world-87583657/

I've read about the Egyptian incubators in other articles. Interesting stuff and not just confined to the Egyptians as I understand it.

 

[Windrider]

I am guessing you are referring to these chickens?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Freeway_chickens#:~:text=Coordinates:34.1469°N 118.3703,) in Los Angeles, California.

Yep, those are the chickens!

Edit: Well, maybe I knew the satellite colony that developed later, because I saw them by the 10 freeway not the 101.

 

[Shadrach]

Henry.

 

[Shadrach]

I am having the same problem. I will never be caught up.

Welcome to the thread @LaFemmeKatia

 

[Shadrach]

I definitely crashed this party too!
And it has occurred to me that it was a bit rude of me to just show up uninvited and not even pay any tax!!!!!!!
So, in order to rectify my uncouthness….
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I've deliberately not invited anyone. All are welcome as long as they pay their taxes.

 

[Shadrach]

I have an earlier post on this thread about this but essentially, they can learn some things but not all. I hope that these girls have at least a 2 more years in them (I would love to see even longer). I would love to see them learn more as they spend more years with the other chickens but they seem to have hit a wall in what behaviors they can pick up later in life.

I hope much the same with this lot but I think it would take another generation to strat to turn back the damage.

 

[Shadrach]

I know Smudge will not even give a bird that is not laying a second look ..
My tax is him.. He stil protects them when he calls the girls in.View attachment 2928170

He's a bit handsome isn't he.

 

[Windrider]

This seems to be known by many of the chicken keepers I know but mention this on BYC and other forums and you get told you're talking nonsense.

Shad, I think you are forgetting that this is a forum where at least once a month, knowledgeable members have to debunk the belief that you can tell the sex of an unhatched chick by swinging a nail on a thread above the egg. Or that pointy eggs hatch into cockerels and round ones into pullets. My science professors would despair.

Again in lieu of tax I have a pic I stole from Feather Site. This is what my hens looked like: show stock black bantam cochins. I wonder how long it would have taken their progeny to revert to wild type, since I can hardly think of a chicken further from a jungle fowl. I think they would have been picked off by predators first, but at least they were broody and didn't lay that many eggs per year.

What they looked like:

"Real" chicken (jungle fowl)

 

[Shadrach]

Have to go see that

I'm sure you'll love it Penny.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good movies are mostly like that now that I will pay to see